Would You Be Concerned

Wow!  Good for you!  That's amazing!  My Dad was diagnosed last month with Stage 4 Colon Cancer and his surgeon gave him a death sentence.  However, he is doing great with the Chemo (on his 3rd treatment today) he is working, gaining weight, and has energy.  You are living proof that you can live with this disease.  I will be sure to tell my Dad I hae spoken with yet another survivor!

 As far as your levels go, I do not know any information to give you a concrete answer, but I assume that your doctor will be monitoring you closely with your fluctuating levels.  Don't stress you, leave that part of the job to the doctors and you concentrate on your part of the job---your mind!

On 4/16/2008 DinaZ wrote:

Wow!  Good for you!  That's amazing!  My Dad was diagnosed last month with Stage 4 Colon Cancer and his surgeon gave him a death sentence.  However, he is doing great with the Chemo (on his 3rd treatment today) he is working, gaining weight, and has energy.  You are living proof that you can live with this disease.  I will be sure to tell my Dad I hae spoken with yet another survivor!

 As far as your levels go, I do not know any information to give you a concrete answer, but I assume that your doctor will be monitoring you closely with your fluctuating levels.  Don't stress you, leave that part of the job to the doctors and you concentrate on your part of the job---your mind!

Hi everyone,

Just to let you all with stage IV diagnoses... I'm another one who has done well.  I was diagnosed in Aug. '07- stage IV rectal w/ mets to both liver & both lungs.  I went through 10 treatments of Folfox + Avastin.  My lung tumors disappeared & I am now down to just 3 (from 12) tumors in my liver- my recent PET showed negative- so they're not "hot", no longer cancerous!  I then completed 28 cycles of IMRT radiation along with Cisplatin weekly to address the rectal tumor.  Guess what?  I had the sigmoidoscopy last Monday to restage the rectal tumor.  It's gone!!  Even the biopsy of tissue where it was shows no cancer or residual cells!  I am elated!  My surgeon says she sees no reason to do the rectal resection.  Stage IV to cancer free (at this time, anyhow) in 8 months!  I will still need to have something done to the now benign liver tumors- I meet with the liver specialist  next week.  I also received the follow up care schedule from my oncologist- sigmoids every 6 mos. (or maybe more often, he said), monthly bloodwork, CT/PETs every 4 months.  I don't know what my future holds, but I am VERY happy and encouraged about how it's gone!